Comment on "Late Cenozoic reorganization of the Arabia-Eurasia collision and the comparison of short-term and long-term deformation rates" by M. Allen, J. Jackson, and R. Walker

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Westaway, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Miocene; Pliocene; Quaternary; Syria; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 11944275648     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001674     Document Type: Article

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